Xbox Live Gold subscribers are calling for a new freebie

Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers have been going through a bit of a rough patch lately, given how this month’s Free Games with Gold fares compared to PlayStation Plus titles and how Xbox Game Pass games have recently been added. on weekends. Following events that were mostly perceived by subscribers as failures or downgrades, the Free Play Days games, or game in this case, also created a strange turn of events that did not go unnoticed by Xbox Live Gold users.

Free Play Days games are announced every Thursday, and this time Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers can play. I’m a Fish free all weekend. To be clear, this is not a knock I’m a Fish – it comes from Bossa Studios, the same developer that made Surgeon simulator and: I am Bread, it has received positive reviews and is a fun simulator. The problem people are finding this game to play for free over the weekend is that it is the only game included in this round of Free Play Days.

If you look at the Free Play Days game archives, you’ll see a history of what has been temporarily free to play over the past few weeks. Those games include things like: Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2:, NBA 2K23, Rainbow Six Siegeand: Dead by Daylight just to give you an idea of ​​the distribution of games, but one thing they all have in common is that there are several games that are free to try every week. Most of the time there are three games on offer at once, and sometimes two or even four, but not since the week of September 29 has only one game been offered. WRC 10 FIA World Rally Championship – was the only game in Free Play Days.

Free Play Days. Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members can play I Am Fish this weekend. Details here: https://t.co/5fmelRazL9

— Xbox Wire (@XboxWire) January 12, 2023

In itself, this would not be a big problem at all, but the situation has now become complicated by people who were already asking what’s going on with Xbox given the recent Xbox Game Pass and Xbox Games with Gold situations. It also did not go unnoticed Xbox fans that developer Bossa Studios suggested late last year that the Xbox Series S was holding back game development. Again, that part wouldn’t really matter under normal circumstances, but when I’m a Fish is the only free-to-try game this week that stands out.

A new round of Free Play Days games will also be offered next week, so we’ll see how many are offered and what those games will be.